Brian Bilston is one of the UK's most hilarious and best-loved poets and novelists. With over 500,000 followers on social media, Brian has been dubbed as the “Poet Laureate of Twitter”. He has published four collections of poetry for adults: You Took the Last Bus Home; Alexa, what is there to know about love?; Days Like These; and And So This is Christmas. His novel Diary of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He has also published collections of poetry for younger readers: 50 Ways to Score a Goal; Let Sleeping Cats Lie; and A Poem for Every Question. His acclaimed poem ‘Refugees’ has been made into an illustrated book for children.
Brian Bilston is our guest in episode 593 of My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he’d like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Buy tickets for Brian Bilston’s Edinburgh Festival show, How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside, here - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/brian-bilston-how-to-lay-an-egg-with-a-horse-inside .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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